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Information Systems: A Management Perspective

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Chapter 8, Computer Hardware

General sources about computers
Semiconductor Manufacturing
Chips and Computer Operation
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General sources about computers
Yahoo! Computers and Internet; Yahoo! Science: Information Technology: Yahoo! indexes literally thousands of sites related to computers, information technology, and the internet.
Information Age: People, Information & Technology: This site shows photos from the exhibition, Information Age: People, Information & Technology in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The exhibition displays visually and interactively how electrical information technology has changed our society over the last 150 years.
IBM Research site: This site identifies some of the areas in which IBM is doing research.
Semiconductor Manufacturing
The Making of a Silicon Chip: This brief article from the book One Digital Day summarizes the process of making a chip and shows several pictures revealing the environment in which chips are manufactured.
Cross sectional view of a chip being manufactured: This simplified, but representative illustration of the sequence comes from an engineering course at the University of Illinois.
Semiconductor Supersite: Mixed in links directed at the semiconductor industry are some images that explain semiconductor manufacturing.
Semiconductor Subway: Links to technical semiconductor industry and research sites.
Chips and computer operation
Pentium III 500 Review: On Jan. 11, 1999 Intel announced the coming release of the Pentium III microprocessor. This review starts with a brief overview and then discusses topics ranging from new instructions and temperature levels to pricing forecasts.
50 years of the transistor: Lucent Technologies, successor of Bell Labs, where the transistor was invented, provides this page honoring the 50th anniversary of the invention.
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The Rocket eBook™: About the size of a paperback, the Rocket eBook™ holds some 4,000 pages of words and images. That's about 10 novels. Barnes and Noble currently sells it.

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